Time to tackle the newsquiz

Last week’s newsquiz was clearly a little trickier for some, with quite a few scores coming in below average. There were still the usual top performances though. Liz Gerard was pick of the bunch with 23, followed by Toby Brown on 20.5, Gavin Devine on 18.5 and Jayme Bryla and Ed Mortimer who both scored 17. The top team was Rob and Nicola Lawrence with 21.5, just ahead of the Roberts Family with 21, Maureen and Phil Parsons 18 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward 17.5. Here is this week’s quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week’s events. Give it a go and let me know your score.

A selection of today's front pages

1. How many more people are to be added to the shielding list in England after a new algorithm found them to be at potential serious risk from Covid-19?
2. Four people, who arrived at which airport on Monday, were fined £10,000 for failing to declare they had travelled to the UK from a 'red list' country?
3. How much are volunteers to be paid for taking part in a scientific trial and exposing themselves to the virus which causes Covid-19?
4. Which bank announced its annual profit fell by a third after setting aside £4.8billion to cover bad loans and finding itself in the 'eye of the pandemic’?
5. According to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service record numbers of people, up by 32 per cent, applied to study what during the pandemic?
6. The mayor of which town resigned and was fined £200 after breaching Covid restrictions by visiting a house to celebrate a wedding?
7. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer outlined proposals for a British ___ Bond scheme as the centrepiece of his alternative plan ahead of next month's Budget. What is the missing word?
8. Who said she would 'give up my vaccine in a heartbeat, if I could, for my sister and any of the residents in her house to have their vaccine’?
9. The Duke of Edinburgh was taken to which London hospital as a precaution because he was feeling unwell? 
10. How many Republican senators broke ranks and voted to convict former president Donald Trump at his impeachment trial?
11. The United Nations said it is to raise the detention of who with the United Arab Emirates?
12. The UK’s Supreme Court ruled that which company must classify its drivers as workers rather than self-employed, meaning they are entitled to minimum wage and holiday pay?
13. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said his government will not be intimidated by which company whose actions he described as arrogant and disappointing?
14. A black and white photograph by Misan Harriman was used by media all over the world. What did it show?
15. Why was football referee Darren Drysdale in the headlines?
16. Liverpool Echo journalist Liam Thorp, 32, was offered a Covid-19 vaccine early because his surgery recorded him as being how tall - meaning his BMI was 1,000 times higher than average?
17. The retailer Iceland sacked its PR chief after he described what as ‘incomprehensible’ and ‘gibberish’?
18. What is the name of Nasa's six-wheeled rover that landed on Mars to spend two years looking for evidence of past life?
19. Why did the Royal Mail suspend 51-year-old postman Thomas McCafferty in Falkirk?

20. Kyril Louis-Dreyfus became the youngest chairman in English football after his takeover of Sunderland was approved. How old is he?

21. Plans for statues of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, to be erected at Burgh Island in Devon, were rejected by Bigbury Parish Council. How were the two women famous?
22. A Banksy artwork of a girl doing what was removed from the side of a building in Nottingham and sold to a collector?
23. Who asked for plans to erect a statue of her to be put on hold, saying: 'Given all that is going on in the world, I don't think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time’?
24. Who was the last contestant standing in the Masked Singer?
25. Former presenter of the Weakest Link, Anne Robinson, was announced as the new host of what TV show?

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